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OT: W7 permissions

I have a home network of seven computers. A couple in the shop, a couple in the sales area, one for surfing and watching video (this one), one for my better half, and the main one in the office. For years under XP, I cross backed up all the data. I have my own system, but it involves copying from one computer to the other from any location to any other location.

I downgraded this computer (my surf and video) to W7 because of all the multimedia things. Then I noticed all the XP boxes couldn't write to hard drives on this box. Bit of a pain, I just always sat here to pull data from the other boxes.

Then I replaced the main office computer with W7 about a month ago and the problems really began. I'm constantly getting "you do not have permission... contact the administrator..." when trying to copy files to this box from the other W7 machine or vice versa. I am the administator on all the boxes.

There must be some sort of file attribute that W7 sets to prevent sharing some files. Some files copy fine.

suggestions? (other than Kill M$oft)

Karl

Reply to
Karl Townsend
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The trend seems to be to tighten security by removing access...Grrrr!! I never figgered out what the cool kids do, but I did find that If ALL the machines on the network used the same username and password, win7 networking worked fine.

For access from lesser machines there's one security "fix" that you can undo.

I copied this off the web so I could access W7 files from a windows PDA. ______________________________________________

Please try the following in Windows 7:

  1. Open Registry Editor, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\

  1. Create LMCompatibilityLevel (DWord) and set the value to 1

For more information, please also refer to:

LmCompatibilityLevel _______________________________________________ works for me, but i care not about security.

Reply to
mike

Have you read up on User Account Control (UAC), it got introduced in Vista and can be a PITA. You can disable it or turn down how sensitive it is to what you're doing.

Reply to
David Billington

Den 19-03-2013 10:18, Karl Townsend skrev:

How about setting up a NAS, a small server that all the computers can access? Have it working here with XP, Vista and W7. The one we use is a NetGear ReadyNAS Duo NAS Server. The good thing is that the server has 2 HD and the data are mirrored on both disks. In addition we have a 3. disc that we swap. Doing this ensures that we have a backup even if the NAS gets stolen (god forbid it ever happens).

Reply to
Uffe Bærentsen

Karl, if any of your systems are Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium or less instead of Pro, then adding a NAS as Uffe suggests, or a Linux system emulating a NAS, might be a good thing to do. See following link about how a Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium system can't join a domain. The second link is how to registry edit in Home to join a workgroup which might be good enough. Generally, the capabilities are there but have been turned off or crippled by Microsoft as part of a product differentiation strategy.

I don't know the ins and outs but I think Microsoft Windows XP Home had a similar domain-joining problem, which could be fixed fairly easily by registry editing as at:

Reply to
James Waldby

I do seem to remember that there is a GUI setting you can change in W7 that sorts lots of network problems communicating with older system and it is not obvious what the functionality controls from the description, now I just need to remember what it was and where. I got out of Windows programming a couple of years ago because I got fed up with it after 20 years and went into metal working for a living. Now to be fair to MS some of the stuff like UAC has been brought about by developers not using the security facilities available for years under NT based systems and rather just running everything in supervisor mode. MS used to bend over backwards to make older systems run, not always perfectly as i found out on some 16bit issues, but more recently they seem to have taken a tougher stance and it doesn't help peoples fondness for them when they change driver models and OS changes result in good kit not being supported any more.

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David Billington

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